ttbn,

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//visit any regional prison in wa and you will find this Cotrell character who I know little about has child like offenses compared with many from Indigeneous communities//

So that makes arson OK then does it, runner? If there are people committing worse crimes than arson - and there undoubtedly are - then the arson becomes excusable? Sorry, I obviously didn't attend the same school of ethics you did. So I'm left wondering exactly how many wrongs, in your view, it takes to make a right? Just a ballpark figure will do.

ttbn I thought Foxy’s comment was relevant. More relevant if the main point of my post had been addressed but that’s a different part of the issue. I’d prefer to know when actual Nazis are part of the public discourse just as I pay attention when peolle are pushing Marxist agendas.

My impression remains that the term Nazi gets flung around so loosely to attack those who don’t agree with the far left that the term is becoming meaningless.

R0bert

//It should also be pointed out that stalking and arson (thanks runner) are not political crimes.//

Fires in the Reichstag aside, no, generally not.

That still doesn't make make stalking and arson OK. When did such cowardly and thuggish behaviour become OK? Why does nobody seem to care that this deadbeat literally tried to burn a man's house down? WTF?

actually if you bothered to read the posts Toni you would see that my post was in response to Foxy's totally improportionate fear of a couple of jokers compared to the tyrants of antifa/pussy heads etc. You seem to have the art of complicating plain truth.

//In real terms a far greater threat than the alt right and wanna be Nazis currently.//

Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. Cottrell is fairly typical of the far-right, from what I've seen. Juiced-up drongos with very little impulse control, who are most looking for an excuse to thump people... and any excuse will do.

The left may or may not be more violent overall, and I suspect they're better organised and therefore more of a threat in that sense. But they also seem to be more choosy when it comes to picking their battles. Their violence takes place at 'peaceful' demonstrations; they don't just gang together like, well, a gang and go about threatening random members of the public. Which Cottrell and his bovver boys have been known to do. The violence of the left is more calculated and planned, and therefore less of a threat to me: the random acts of violence exhibited by the right are more of a threat to the man on the Clapham omnibus, and therefore more of an immediate concern to myself.

And presumably, an even bigger concern to people from sections of the community to which Cottrell as expressed or displayed a particular animosity, including Muslims, people who aren't white, and women.